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Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of the Jewish News Syndicate, a senior contributor for The Federalist, a columnist for Newsweek and a contributor to many other publications. He covers the American political scene, foreign policy, the U.S.-Israel relationship, Middle East diplomacy, the Jewish world and the arts. He hosts the JNS “Think Twice” podcast, both the weekly video program and the “Jonathan Tobin Daily” program, which are available on all major audio platforms and YouTube. Previously, he was executive editor, then senior online editor and chief political blogger, for Commentary magazine. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of The Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia and editor of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. He has won more than 60 awards for commentary, art criticism and other writing. He appears regularly on television, commenting on politics and foreign policy. Born in New York City, he studied history at Columbia University.

A call for the Trump administration to show more sympathy for the Palestinian perspective demonstrates the flaw in the thinking of peace advocates.
In a political culture in which Democrats and Republicans demonize each other, building a national consensus in favor of the Jewish state becomes difficult.
The Arab world wants no part of the Palestinians’ endless war on Israel. Democrats who oppose Trump’s peace plan should follow their lead.
Longtime State Department peace processors who helped wreck the region under Clinton or Obama, and are now the first to criticize the Trump plan, lack credibility.
Contrary to the bad advice they’re getting from the Democrats and J Street, Palestinians need to accept that the U.S. plan is their best chance for statehood.
The billionaire and the Socialist could present Democrats with a debate about support for Israel, as well as the virtues of socialism and capitalism.
It’s not clear whether it will bail out Bibi or hurt Gantz, but imagining a future Middle East that accepts most of these terms is actually a practical idea.
Why aren’t Jews supporting a court challenge to Montana’s striking down of tax credits for parochial education rooted in 19th-century prejudice?
The Blue and White leader’s embrace of annexing the Jordan Valley is the product of a broad Israeli consensus on the lack of a peace partner that Americans ignore.
The ballot is no symbolic vote. That’s why the left, the right and every other sector of American Jewry are correct to view it as important.
The Allies’ refusal to devote sufficient resources to rescue and halt the Nazi murder factory is one more reason why a sovereign State of Israel is necessary.
Has Yad Vashem’s commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz been hijacked by Israeli political rivalries and the long reach of Vladimir Putin?